Dunlop JD-F2 Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face

well its pretty easy, volume and fuzz. There is no manual, you dont need one, just a sheet explaining how to put a 9v battery in. Id say its pretty easy to get a good sound out of it, on lead work anyway.

Im a MAJOR Jimi Hendrix freak, hes my all time fav, but being a 17 year old kid and all, I sure as hell cant afford a Jimi Hendrix Strat (not the voodoo, the one with the actual backwards body) cause theyre about I dunno 1,200 ahah. so I did the same thing with a squier, just got a lefty and turned it around and flipped the nut, reversed the strings etc. etc. the other part of my setup is a Marshall MG30RCD<Jimmy Dunlop univibe re issue<Fuzz Face<and Jimmy Dunlop Jimi Hendrix wah. I wish I wouldve gotten the Vox V847 but oh well it works for me. When I turn on the Fuzz Face, there is quite a bit of hiss not to bad, but I dont really care about that, just letting you know if you do. The effect of the fuzz doesnt really come into play until the fuzz is basically turned all the way up,the fuzz knob seems kind of useless in a way. heres the the thing I dont like about this fuzz face. you cant play rythm at all, no matter how low the fuzz is, its just all muddy. Id like to see what the roger mayer mod would do, or try the axis fuzz. I think you can get the Hendrix/Clapton sound out of it alright, but I think most of that depends on the skill of the player.

Id say I could depend on it, looks like its built pretty well, I mean its a big steel shell ahah, not some tiny boss pedal. The fact is, I have to use ALL my pedals without a back-up cause I just dont have the money. Just make sure you keep some extra 9 volts around for this thing.

never dealt with Jimmy Dunlop. I hope I dont have to cause Ive heard they can be assholes.

I dunno If I got this pedal when it first came out or something, cause I paid 150 bucks for it, and this thing is NOT worth that much. now I see them around for like 90 bucks or so. this may sound picky, but Ive always wondered why it doesnt come with the dallas-arbiter England smile, I mean if its gonna cost that much make it look like the original! its wierd Ive seen ads for it when it does have the smile, so I dunno. mine doesnt. Ive been playing for 3 and a half years now, and all the other gear I have I mentioned. Id say Im okay. If this got stolen, Id try to find the arbiter re issue, or just buy an axis fuzz

FUZZ and VOLUME knobs...enough said.

Wow...these new Fuzz Faces really don't sound ANYTHING like the old silver ones. The JD-F2 Fuzz Face is quite terrible...they sound mushy, no articulation, no mids, no highs. Must be all the cheap parts they decided to use in an attempt to cash in on the "Fuzz Face" name. Shame on you Jimmy D!

Basically you could re-create the sound of this big red eyesore by distorting a 4-track mixer channel, b/c thats what it sounds like:P
It's fuzz thats totally unmusical, unusable, unversatile.

If you want a raw sounding fuzz for punk and some rock tunes...then I guess this thing wouldn't be too bad...but WHY would you want to pay almost $100 for this one when there are so many other better fuzz boxes out there for $50 and less!!!!

It's probably because you want to look cool (but not sound cool):)

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My friend left this thing at my house a couple years ago and ended up abandoning it here when he left for college. I've actually messed around with it alot in an attempt to get a nice sound out of it...but to no avail. It may look cool, but it's expensive, sounds bad, and has no range to its fuzz. Like I said before, there are so many other fuzzes that are much more musical than this one out there for MUCH cheaper.

Go to your favorite search engine and type: "Fuzz Face mods"...wanna know why so many pages pop up dealing with modifying the JD-F2 FuzzFace? BECAUSE IT STINKS!

very easy, two knobs, you heard it before right? i got it used, so no manual, but it sounds really fine just searching around the settings.

i use a epiphone SG special, fender squier strat and a jackson performer through a combo marshall avt100 or a maniac amp (cheap and bad sounding). my surprise was that the fuzz face worked fine with both, guitars and amps no matter the setup. it sounds exactly the way i wanted, a vintage fuzz sound, warm and with a good sustain, but i only tried it direct into the amp, with no other effect in the chain. you sound exactly like hendrix in radio one, you know, thing that i was really looking for. for chords it really doesn't do a good work, it sounds a little too weak. but for solos it kicks ass for the tone wich is really nice. rolling the guitar volume down really cleans up the distortion, thing that i could never do in a nice way with another pedal. again, i give it a 10 cos it was exactly what i was looking for, a hendrix tone, but if youre into sumthing else, you might be dissapointed. palm mute does not sound good with this pedal.

it's a full-metal box, it looks like ya could run with your car over it and it would still work fine.

never dealt with it i bought it used.

i play lots of things, from classics like beatles to ska, punk rocks and hardcore kinda sound. i am a fuzz fan, i own a XXL tech21 and a Zvex fuzz factory. i cant compare the three, cos they're different stuff if u know what i mean. i can produce hundreds of different tones from then, thing that i cant do with the fuzz face. it actually does only one type of sound, that is the old vintage fuzz. if u want versatility, search for another one effect.
the thing i really HATE on it is that it doesnt have an AC/input jack. so, you'll have to buy batteries for the rest of your life, it really sucks also, to open it and plug it in, cos for that, ya have to remove the botton plate and screw. in a live performance ya would be very angry for that.

i actually was robbed, Brazil sucks dudes, dont walk around with your gear around here. well, but i want to buy another one, if the price is good right? things here just cost too much, a new one costs around U$200, i cant afford it.

DEUS ABENCOE O BRASIL!

very easy to use. large rubber knobds make it possible to adjust volume or fuzz with your foot (i usualy only try this when ive decided i want the volume all the way up and i just kick it) i hated the battery going dead but that was easily solved with an adapter that came with my powersupply (switchmode)

i play a few different guitars (strats, a mustang RI, epi LP special and gibby LP studio) all of which have a humbucker in the bridge and get played through the clean channel of a fender blues deluxe. all dist is outboard. i would NOT recomend this pedal for a rythm guitarist, youll never get the sound you want, but it has a hell of a volume boots and a smooth overdriven sound that i absolutely love. the tone cuts through everything and this is the best lead guitar pedal ever! dont even bother trying to play a chordf through it by itself though, the distortion is just too warm and too saturated to suit any modern day rythm guitarists expectations of a dist pedal

built like a tank. i dont have a back up, ive never needed one

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i play punk and alt rock mostly, blues when im by myself. i use a boss DS-1 as my main dist pedal and the fuzz face when as my soloing pedal. also i use only the fuzz face when i use my vox wah, the ds-1 sounds like crap in conjunction with a wah.

Well, 2 knobs, Volume and Fuzz. very simple

Well!!! Depends on what Yr looking for. Definitely not an instant Jimi in a box. Not too much sustain, and not too much fuzz...only when its almost all turned up to the right does the Fuzz Knob really make an impression. But thats all I need. I wasn't looking for a versatile fuzz, but for a dirty ugly fucker, an dwhen this thing is turned to the max, or near it, its cool as fuck. I use a Es-335 liek geetar, Oscar Schdmit OE-20, pretty good. Ilike Sonic Youth, if i put my ts-7 before this thing, it gets noisy as hell, but good too. There might be better fuzz pedals out there, but this one does all i need

its a tank.

never needed, hope i never will.

I play so-called alternative. Sonic Youth, Nirvana Punk etc. Been playing for just over a year but messed around with lots of gear, iknow whats good or not, methinks...well, i only bought a fuzz face cos my fave geetarist, John Squire (out of teh Stone Roses) had one, not cos of Jimi. Though if i had the money I'd buy a Colorsond Tonebender.
I only decided to buy tis one after playing it a lot at the store, coming back some other day and plkaying more, til l i wa ssure it was good..now iloveit.

It has a volume and a fuzz knob. The big metal chassis very stompable, and you'd have to be blind to miss the switch with feet as large as mine. I like how the controls are laid out. There's little risk in my feet kicking one of the knobs out of place since they're pretty far from the switch.

It has a real high quality fuzz sound, but it's not by any means versitile. I highly recommend using it in direct correlation of an eq pedal. Any eq pedal!! There is no tonal difference in pickup selection that's not "mudded out", so invest in an eq pedal as soon as you buy it. Other than that, it works pretty well. It nails the Hendrix/Cream sound to the t.

It's built like a brick shithouse. I'd never gig without a backup, but I wouldn't worry about it with this'n.

Never dealt with dunlop.

I play blues, primarily, and it's lousy for that, but for the acid rock sound, you can't get anything else for the job. I highly recommend it to the vintage fuzz freaks out there.

Very easy to use because you don't as soon as you plug it in it sounds like shit!!

I think I got an acceptable sound out of it once, the next time I plugged it in...SHIT!!!!! I bought this with the intent of sending it to Analog Mike or Alphonso Hermida to mod, but I'm sick of looking at it! The more I look at this big red stupid thing the more it pissed me off. I just bought a Fulltone 70 & it is everything I need.(see review)

don't use it .....don't care!!

No idea!!!

I play newer blues rock ala Doyle Bramhall II & this is a horrible match. If it were stolen I would laugh because someone would have just wasted their time stealing it.

It is really simple to use. It has 2 knobs, volume, fuzz.

It sound ok. the sound dosent change much though. I got the same exact aound out of my big muff and the big muff can do more because it has a tone know. Buy the BIG MUFF Pi

pretty heavy. probably would last a long time

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I got the same exact aound out of my big muff and the big muff can do more because it has a tone know. Buy the BIG MUFF Pi

This effect is really easy to use, there are just 2 knobs ( 1 - Volume , 1 Fuzz Level ) and it sounds great, it is like a retro effect.

I have a RickenBacker S360 which sounds great, but with my Fender SRV it isn't OK, maybe because of the single pickups, but to play old songs it is very good.

I thing this effect is very reliable because it is such a single circuit and I've never needed support from the dealer.

I've never needed

It's very useful and it is a great effect.

Easy to use, especially with the rubber knobs. You can roll them with your feet fairly easily. One wierd thing is that the input is on the left and the output is on the right, which is backwards. Maybe because it's made in England. It's a little inconvenient to plug in

I have a Fender Hot Rod Deville 4x10 combo amp. I run my Voodoo strat into a Dunlop Rotovibe into the fuzz face, then to a Cry Baby, then into the amp. This configuration sounds good when the drive channel is used on the amp. To my ears any other configuration or order of effects just sounds like crap. I have tried running it leaving out the Rotovibe and for some reason, it sounds like crap too. Too harsh. I am trying to get that Hendrix sound - like the fuzz that sounds like static, and this is the configuration that comes closest to that. I haven't tried any other fuzzes, so I have nothing to compare it's sound too. But like I said, using it by itself is too harsh on the bass end and too harsh on the treble end with very little sustain. It's best used on the drive channel of the amp.

Good so far

Hard to make it sound good. I am fairly satisfied with it now that I have it set up right, but I would probably try something else like the Big Muff fuzz if I lost this one. But it is definitely better than just the drive channel in the amp. Try it before you buy it.